PYSO Through the Decades…
John Bistline (Horn 2007-08) is a Principal Technical Leader at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He fondly remembers “great colleagues and friends, exciting performances (Petrushka stands out), and a very memorable trip to China Playing Rachmaninoff's...
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PYSO Alumni Still Going Strong!
Joseph Molinaro (Violin 1998-2001, pictured above) is the definition of troubadour. In Spring and Summer he plays 40 to 50 concerts of his unique solo violin songs around the world, traveling by motorcycle from city to city. During the school year he teaches music and...
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PYSO Alumni – Thanks for the memories!
Michael Scheimer (Horn 2005-08 and pictured above with and A-Young Lim Scheimer performing Verdi's Requiem Mass in Viterbo, Italy) is a manager at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott and has been Second Horn with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra since 2013…“We got to play...
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PYSO Alumni: Music is at their core regardless of their profession!
Kevin Silmore (Violin 2010-2012) is getting his PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, MA. Of his PYSO days he fondly remembers, “Spending time with friends during the breaks…(carpooling) to Heinz Hall was a great experience…The trip to...
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Kudos to The Appalachian Trio!
The Appalachian Trio formed in the summer of 2017 under the direction of concert pianist Dr. Marina Lupinacci recently won the 1st prize in the ensemble category for the Best Dvorak Performance in the Great Composers Competition in 2018! Who are the Appalachian Trio?!...
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Look where the summer of 2018 has taken these PYSO Alumni!
This past July TJ Wible (Flute 2002-05) finished performing in Austria for two weeks with the Grafenegg Academy Orchestra just outside of Vienna. “The last time I was there was with the PYSO Tour in 2005... so many wonderful memories!” TJ is pictured above with PYSO...
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A PYSO Alum retires from the PSO…another runs the Boston Marathon….
Read on for more news from PYSO Alumni! PYSO alumna Cynthia Marr Busch (Violin/1972-75) and PYSO Second Violin Coach Peter Snitkovsky (whose daughter Natasha is an alumus of PYSO – violin 1988-93) were honored as this years’ retirees from the Pittsburgh Symphony...
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What do these PYSO Alums have in common?
They've all participated in one of the five PYSO international concert tours in the past fourteen years! Mark Debski (Oboe/2010-13) is the newly appointed Principal Oboe of the Richmond Symphony. When asked what he remembers most about his PYSO days, these are just a...
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Tuba Alums pay PYSO a “virtual visit”
PYSO recently heard from two (tuba) alums from our early days. They are still very active in the music scene here and abroad! Frederick J Young (Tuba/1949 to 1954) is a retired CMU professor of electrical engineering who still plays the tuba. (Here he is pictured with...
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PYSO Alumni Near and Far
Colin Gatwood (PYSO oboe/1979-80) has been second oboe with the Houston Symphony since 1993. Zsolt Zavodszky (PYSO violin/2001-05) is working in architecture in Pittsburgh but still takes out his violin to "jam" on jazz standards with friends. Zsolt writes that he...
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